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Old Stone
Film poster
Lao Shi
Directed by	Johnny Ma
Written by	Johnny Ma
Starring	Chen Gang Wang Hongwei
Cinematography	Leung Ming Kai
Edited by	Michael Long
Release date	12 February 2016 (2016-02-12) (Berlin)
Running time	80 minutes
Countries	Canada China
Language	Mandarin

Old Stone (Chinese: 老石; pinyin: Lǎo Shí) is a 2016 Chinese-Canadian drama film directed by Johnny Ma. It was selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

The film tells the story of Lao Shi (Chen Gang), a cab driver in China whose life spirals out of control after he hits a motorcyclist, leaving him trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare because Chinese laws effectively criminalize such an accident far more harshly if the driver stops to help the victim than they do if he simply leaves the victim to die.

Cast

Chen Gang as Lao Shi
An Nai as Mao Mao
Wang Hongwei as Captain
Zhang Zebin as Li Jiang
Lou Xue'er as Xue'er

Awards

The film was named the winner of TIFF's award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. On 7 December 2016, it was named to TIFF's annual Canada's Top 10 list.

The film garnered five Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chen), Best Original Screenplay (Ma), Best Cinematography (Leung Ming Kai) and Best Editing (Michael Long). It won the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature.

References

"Berlin Film Review: 'Old Stone'". Variety. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
"Old Stone". TIFF. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
"Berlin Film Review: ‘Old Stone’". Variety, 18 February 2016.
"TIFF People's Choice Award cements La La Land's place in Oscar race". Entertainment Weekly. 18 September 2016.
"'Telling stories that show Canadians who we are:' TIFF unveils top 10 Canadian films of 2016". CBC News. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
"Ma's 'Old Stone' gets Canadian academy's Best First Feature award". CTV News, 2 January 2017.

External links

Old Stone at IMDb
Old Stone at Rotten Tomatoes

v t e Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature (Claude Jutra/John Dunning Award)
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v t e Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Discovery Award
Best Canadian First Feature (1997-2019)	Cube (1997) Last Night (1998) Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999) The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (2000) Inertia (2001) Marion Bridge (2002) Love, Sex and Eating the Bones (2003) White Skin (2004) The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (2005) On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (2006) Continental, a Film Without Guns (2007) Before Tomorrow (2008) The Wild Hunt (2009) The High Cost of Living (2010) Citizen Gangster (2011) Antiviral and Blackbird (2012) Asphalt Watches (2013) Bang Bang Baby (2014) Sleeping Giant (2015) Old Stone (2016) Luk'Luk'I (2017) Roads in February (2018) The Twentieth Century (2019)
Best Canadian Discovery (2024-present)	Universal Language (2024)

Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Discovery Award

Best Canadian First Feature
(1997-2019)

Cube (1997)
Last Night (1998)
Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
The Left-Hand Side of the Fridge (2000)
Inertia (2001)
Marion Bridge (2002)
Love, Sex and Eating the Bones (2003)
White Skin (2004)
The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico (2005)
On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (2006)
Continental, a Film Without Guns (2007)
Before Tomorrow (2008)
The Wild Hunt (2009)
The High Cost of Living (2010)
Citizen Gangster (2011)
Antiviral and Blackbird (2012)
Asphalt Watches (2013)
Bang Bang Baby (2014)
Sleeping Giant (2015)
Old Stone (2016)
Luk'Luk'I (2017)
Roads in February (2018)
The Twentieth Century (2019)

Best Canadian Discovery
(2024-present)

Universal Language (2024)

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